Peter Handke

If Don Draper had been created by Eugene Ionesco, one imagines the result would be quite similar to Peter Handke's "They Are Dying Out," as filtered through the intriguing aesthetics of director Max Truax.

Seldom produced since its 1973 premiere, Handke's play traces the existential angst of Hermann Quitt (Kevin Cox), an uber-capitalist who proclaims at the outset, "I feel sad today." His sadness translates into a sadistic need to humiliate his wife and assistant, betray his fellow business titans, and ultimately to murder a "minority stockholder."

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